With less than eight weeks until the Paralympics get underway in Rio, home athletes Richard Whitehead and Libby Clegg provided the Muller Anniversary Games in London with world records in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix Final held in the London 2012 stadium.

Mo Farah produced the expected winning home flourish at the end of the two-day International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in London, earning victory the hard way in a 5,000 metres where he pushed the pace from the off before crossing the line a finishing straight clear of a top class field in 12min 59.29sec, the fastest run so far this year.

Usain Bolt put his recent hamstring problems behind him as he recorded 19.89sec to win over 200 metres in his last race before Rio 2016 at the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Diamond League meeting in London – but even Bolt had to give best on the night to the performance of US 100m hurdler Kendra Harrison, who lowered one of the longest standing world records, the 1988 mark of 12.21 set by Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova, with a time of 12.20.

Mo Farah has expressed his sympathy for any clean Russian track and field athletes who may have been caught up in the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ban confirmed earlier this week - but he added that if National Federations are responsible for doping irregularities, they have to pay a price.

Usain Bolt’s last race before he defends his Olympic 100 and 200 metre titles in Rio will be the high point of interest at the two-day International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) London Diamond League meeting which starts tomorrow.

Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopia’s triple Olympic champion, has reacted angrily to being omitted from the team for next month’s Rio Olympics, claiming that members of his National Federation “know nothing about athletics.”

Usain Bolt believes the ban on Russian track and field athletes from international competition that was upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today has sent out “a strong message”.

Kim Collins, the 40-year-old former world 100 metres champion who vowed he would never compete for St Kitts and Nevis again after being dropped before his first race at the London 2012 Games, has been cleared to compete for his country in Rio next month at what will be his fifth Olympics.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Monaco - just half-an-hour’s drive from Nice - went ahead after Prince Albert II had chaired an emergency meeting of the Monegasque Athletics Federation to discuss the terrorist attack of the previous night.

If you want a pointer as to how the athletics competition will go at next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, tomorrow’s Herculis meeting at the Stade Louis II in Monaco - whose participants include Dafne Schippers, Asbel Kiprop, Mo Farah, Mutaz Essa Barshim and Caster Semenya – will offer telling information.

European Athletics is to “look more closely” at the way in which athletes are allowed to transfer allegiance in order to represent new countries in international competition before discussing the matter with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), President Svein Arne Hansen has announced.

Svein Arne Hansen, President of European Athletics, has hailed the Amsterdam 2016 Championships that came to a close yesterday as “a great success”, praising the range of innovations which have distinguished the 23rd running of the event.

Allyson Felix’s plans to double up over 200/400 metres at next month’s Rio Olympics, already accommodated by an alteration in the athletics programme scheduling, came to naught on the final day of the US Olympic Track and Field trials as she missed the chance to defend her 200m title in Brazil by one place and one hundredth of a second.

Three victories on the final day of the 23^rd European Athletics Championships here - from Adam Kszczot over 800 metres, Angelika Cichocka in the 1500m and hammer thrower Pawel Fajdek - moved Poland to the top of the medals table with a total of six golds.